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Is the ‘paranormal’ poppycock?
Most phenomena have an explanation, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY, but occasionally ‘anomalous’ events have led to new scientific understanding

IF YOU mean beyond human understanding, then the answer is yes — “paranormal” is poppycock. “Paranormal” implies that phenomena exist that are above, beyond, or contrary to scientific or “normal” explanations of how our world works.

A materialist approach, however, asserts that there is nothing that, in essence, is incapable of explanation although there is a good deal for which an explanation has yet to be generally accepted.

Well before Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 text The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, it was recognised that science was not just a straight, linear road to the “truth” but progressed in fits and starts.

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